[chrz]

> How do I feel, about all the code I wrote that was ingested by LLMs? I feel great to be part of that, because I see this as a continuation of what I tried to do all my life: democratizing code, systems, knowledge. LLMs are going to help us to write better software, faster, and will allow small teams to have a chance to compete with bigger companies.

You might feel great, thats fine, but I dont. And software quality is going down, I wouldn't agree that LLMs will help write better software

[epolanski]

> I wouldn't agree that LLMs will help write better software

Your statement makes no sense.

Even if you don't let LLMs author a single line of your code, they can still review it, find edge cases you didn't think about or suggest different approaches.

The fact that AI allows lots of slop, does not negate its overall utility in good informed hands.

[sesm]

The balance between 'find edge cases' and 'hallucinate non-existing cases and waste your time' may be negative. LLMs are also not free, they cost significant money even today, when they are subsidized by marketing budget.

[okdood64]

> software quality is going down

Is there some metric for this?

[inetknght]

Have you looked around you? Windows, macOS... there's terrible quality software everywhere and it's only getting worse.

To be fair, it's been getting worse since before LLMs were a thing.